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By 1971 the Mustang had grown longer, wider and more muscular, and Ford wasn’t done making a statement. This Mach 1 from the Brothers Collection carries the most serious engine option of them all, the one built for people who wanted the last word at a stoplight. V8TV puts it under the lights for Muscle Car Of The Week. The badge on the fender says 429, but the letters after it are what matter. Watch to see it.
A 1957 Corvette in Polo White looks like it rolled straight out of the Eisenhower era, but this roadster hides a detail that made it one of Chevrolet’s boldest engineering statements of the decade. Filmed at Corvette Mike Midwest for Lou Costabile’s “My Car Story,” this frame-off restoration pairs classic curves with a very specific engine choice. The number stamped on that 283 is the whole point. Watch to hear it run.
The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona looks like something a kid would draw, with a pointed nose cone and a rear wing tall enough to see over the roof. But every wild feature was deadly serious engineering. Muscle Car Of The Week features one from the Brothers Collection, a genuine rarity that is 1 of 502 built and 1 of 294 with the 440. See how a NASCAR weapon ended up in dealer showrooms.
A 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 looks like the quiet cruiser your grandfather drove to church, and that is exactly what makes this one dangerous. The V8TV crew pulls back the curtain on a no-frills R-code hiding a dual-quad 427 and a four-speed. From The Brothers Collection, it is the original factory sleeper, built to win on the superspeedways. See why looks can be very deceiving.
Most project cars start clean. This Dodge Challenger started as a hail-totaled insurance write-off, and Stanley the Dirt Monkey turned it into a Mad Max machine on a bare-bones budget. Think three-inch lift, truck tires, baja LED lighting, underglow, and a bed-liner body coating. It is everything a Challenger is not supposed to be, and that is the point. See how a totaled Mopar became a wasteland warrior.
Every collector car claims to be rare, but this Mustang makes a claim that stops you cold: possibly the rarest in the world, with only two known to exist. When production numbers get that small, the provenance matters as much as the metal, and this one has a story worth digging into. Extreme Mustang rarity almost always traces back to something unusual. See what makes this pony car a two-of-two survivor.
The moment this dark GT500 fastback rolls into frame, every muscle car fan thinks the same thing, and it is a name Ford never printed on a fender. It is an Eleanor-style Shelby tribute, and Jeff of Carsbyjeff takes this show car out for a test drive. With buyers watching from Norway to Australia, the Eleanor mystique is truly global. See whether the movie-star looks are backed by real substance.
The 1968 Dodge Charger is one of the most recognizable shapes ever built, but this one hides a secret beneath its Coke-bottle body: a factory 426 Hemi, a four-speed, and a color-plus-option combination believed to make it a genuine one-of-one. Real Hemi cars already stand apart; an unrepeatable one enters a different league entirely. Take a spin in a Charger that may have no twin anywhere. See what makes it so special.
A black 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 HO convertible is the spark behind this question: what were you driving the first time you hit 120 mph? Pontiac’s 400 HO packed 335 horsepower and ran 0-60 in 5.3 seconds, quick enough to beat a 390 Mustang, a Camaro SS 396, and a 340 Barracuda in a 1968 Car and Driver test. Decades before traction control and ABS, that kind of speed took real nerve. Tell us your car, your engine, and the moment you found out what both were made of.
Not every car that rolls into the shop makes a veteran mechanic stop and stare, but a 1970 Dodge Coronet convertible with a four-speed and a 440 big block is exactly that rare. Ragtop, stick shift, and Mopar’s legendary engine form a combination the factory almost never built. Before restoration can begin, the 440 comes apart on the bench — and the teardown tells the real story. Follow along inside the engine.
This Hemi Orange 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T exists because of a little family rivalry — owner Dave Saruk needed one after his brother-in-law bought a 426 Hemi Challenger of his own. Captured at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, the car pairs unmistakable color with a genuine factory 426 Hemi from the muscle era’s final stretch. Fire it up and the engine note explains everything. Hear it for yourself.
Hennessey didn’t name the Exorcist by accident — it built this 1,000-horsepower, supercharged Camaro ZL1 specifically to hunt down the Dodge Demon. Starting with a track-ready platform meant the brakes and chassis could match the outrageous output. In this drive review, someone who’s sampled plenty of fast cars gets rearranged by four figures of horsepower in a street-legal package. Ride along to see how it feels when the supercharger spools.
This Lime Gold 1967 Ford LTD XL looks like a comfortable full-size cruiser — until you spot the badges and the four-speed shifter. From the Brothers Collection, it left the factory with a 425-horsepower R-Code 427, a combination so few buyers ordered that it barely exists today. Shot at the Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, this is the sleeper story of a land yacht hiding a race-bred big block. See what makes it so rare.
The Ford 427 was named for a racing displacement limit rather than its true 425.98-cubic-inch size, and it earned its reputation the hard way, winning Le Mans outright in 1966 and 1967 inside the GT40, and dominating NHRA Super Stock in the Ford Thunderbolt. Ford’s single-cam Cammer variant made 616 horsepower and was so dominant that NASCAR banned it before it ever raced. Few engines in Detroit history combined that much racetrack success with that much controversy.
AMC came late to the muscle car war and was largely written off, then answered with the 1970 Rebel Machine — red, white, and blue, a functional Ram Air hood, a driver-facing tach, and a 390 V8 backed by a four-speed. It was the smallest automaker’s boldest swing, and it landed. Here’s the story behind AMC’s best muscle car and why it still commands respect at every show it attends.